Working up a sweat for child health research

More than 50 CITIC Pacific Mining (CPM) employees and contractors swapped their hard hats and boots for running shoes and exercise gear in October in support of child health research.

It was the fifth year the Foxtel Lap had been held in Perth but this year
was the first time teams from a remote location had taken part in the fundraiser. While city teams took to the Esplanade Stage in Perth, CPM teams clocked up 100-metre laps on treadmills and bikes at the Sino Iron project’s Eramurra Village, about 100km south west of Karratha.

CPM teams included individuals from CPM, UGL, Nilsens, Programmed Construction and Maintenance, MCC, Redline and Toll, all completing as many 100-metre laps as they could in 20 minutes.

Four treadmill teams completed 1,449 laps and two bike teams completed 2,190 laps. The effort raised approximately $7,000 for the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, with about half these funds coming from corporate sponsors.